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HOWTO: “Blind” remote install of FreeBSD via tiny disk image (ZFS edition)
In a past post I described how to install a FreeBSD remotely via a tiny UFS based disk image over a linux system. In this post I describe how to do it with a ZFS based disk image. Invariants Given a...
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iocage: HOWTO create a basejail from src (instead of from an official release)
Background So far I have used ezjail to manage FreeBSD jails. I use jails since years to have different parts of a software stack in some kind of a container (in a ZFS dataset for the filesystem side...
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Essen Hackathon 2018
Again this time of the year where we had the pleasure of doing the Essen Hackathon in a nice weather condition (sunny, not too hot, no rain). A lot of people here, about 20. Not only FreeBSD committers...
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Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant
Since I participate in the FreeBSD project there are from time to time some voices which say FreeBSD is dead, Linux is the way to go. Most of the time those voices are trolls, or people which do not...
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